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Is there such thing as inheritance of obesity, or the tendency to become overweight? If there is a gene that has some control over weight, can external factors change the dominance/expression of your parents' alleles in you? For example, if your mother is a large woman and your father is thin-framed, and you are somewhere in the middle, can external factors make one parent's allele dominant and expressed over the other? Could a sudden change in lifestyle trigger a change in genetic expression?

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